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Ghori Pathans
Ghori, (also Ghouri,Gouri) pathans originating from the Ghor region of present-day central Afghanistan came to Indian peninsula during the successive Muslim invasions of the 11th and 12th centuries AD, forming a part of the Afghan armies of Mahmud of Ghazni and Muhammed Ghori. Gradually over the centuries they settled in leading cities of subcontinent. With their martial background, like other pathans, they were in great demand as soldiers and mercenaries for different principalities. The city of Meerut, in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has been said to be the earliest settlement of the Pashtuns in North India, and the Ghauris have been settled there for at least eight hundred years. Other Pathan tribes in the district include the Kakar, Bangash, Tareen and Afridi. In Lahore, a historic cultural center of wider Punjab region, Ghauris settled within the confines of Mochi Gate, which itself is marred form of Urdu word “Morchi” meaning “Trench Soldier” different streets (Moha ...
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Ghor
Ghōr (Dari: ), also spelled Ghowr or Ghur, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in the western Hindu Kush in central Afghanistan, towards the northwest. The province contains eleven districts, encompassing hundreds of villages, and approximately 764,472 settled people. Firuzkoh (called Chaghcharan until 2014) serves as the capital of the province. Etymology The ancient Indo-European, Sogdian ''gor-''/''gur-'' ("mountain"-) is well preserved in all Slavic ''gor-''/''gór- (goor-/gur-)'', e.g.: Gorals, Goran, Goranci, Góra, Gora..., in Iranian languages, e.g.: Gorani language, Guran (Kurdish tribe)... and even in India and Nepal, e.g.: Gurkha. The Polish notation using ''gór-'' ("ó" stands for a sound between English "oo" and "u") instead of the popular ''gur-'' or ''ghur-'' preserves the ancient orthography. History The inhabitants of Ghor were completely Islamized during the Ghurids era. Before the 12th century, the area was home to Hi ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ...
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Pashtun Diaspora In India
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically referred to as Afghans () or xbc, αβγανο () until the 1970s, when the term's meaning officially evolved into that of a demonym for all residents of Afghanistan, including those outside of the Pashtun ethnicity. The group's native language is Pashto, an Iranian language in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Additionally, Dari Persian serves as the second language of Pashtuns in Afghanistan while those in the Indian subcontinent speak Urdu and Hindi (see Hindustani language) as their second language. Pashtuns are the 26th-largest ethnic group in the world, and the largest segmentary lineage society; there are an estimated 350–400 Pashtun tribes and clans with a variety of origin theories. The total popul ...
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Layyah District
Layyah District ( skr, , urd, ), is a district in the Punjab, Pakistan. It is located in the southern part of the province. Layyah City is the district headquarter of Layyah District. Layyah has hot desert climate. The main languages spoken in the district include Saraiki (66.67%), Punjabi (27.79%), Urdu (2.78%), and Pashto (2.29%). Geography It lies between 30–45 to 31–24 deg north latitudes and 70–44 to 71–50 deg east longitudes. The area consists of a semi-rectangular block of sandy land between the Indus River and the Chenab River in Sindh Sagar Doab. The total area covered by the district is 6,291 km2 with a width from east to west of and a length from north to south of . History The town was founded around 1550 by Kamal Khan, who laid foundation of Dera Ghazi Khan. Around 1610, the town was taken from the Rulers, who held it until 1787. Abdun Nabi Sarai was appointed Governor by Timur Shah Durrani, but three years later it was included in the Governor ...
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Pashtun Tribes
The Pashtun tribes ( ps, پښتانه قبايل), historically also known as Afghan tribes, are the tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who use the Pashto language and follow Pashtunwali code of conduct. They are found primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan and form the world's largest tribal society, comprising over 49 million people and between 350 and 400 tribes and clans. They are traditionally divided into four tribal confederacies: the Sarbani (), the Bettani (), the Gharghashti () and the Karlani (). Folkloric genealogies trace the descendants of the Pashtuns to Qais Abdur Rashid and his three sons ''Saṛban'' (), ''Bēṭ'' (), and ''Gharghax̌t'' () as well as an adopted son, not directly adopted by Qais Abdul Rashid, therefore, the identity of Karlan himself and the man who adopted him, according to some books written on the history of the Pashtuns, is either unclear or controversial, the Karlani confederacy Ormur Baraki, who became t ...
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Sindhi Tribes
Ethnic groups in Pakistan Tribes Sindhi people Sindhis ( sd, سنڌي Perso-Arabic: सिन्धी Devanagari; ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the province of Sindh in Pakistan. After the partition of British Indian empire in 1947, m ... Sindhi society ...
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Qaimkhani
Kayamkhani or Kaimkhani (also spelled kayam Khani and Kaim Khani) is a Muslim community of India who were notable for ruling the Fatehpur-Jhunjhunu region in Rajasthan from the 1300s to the 1700s. History They are said to be descended from Chauhan Rajputs who converted from Hinduism to Islam in the 14th century during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq. As also stated by the historian Dirk Kolff the Qaimkhani have Turkic origins. They ruled between 1384 and 1731 with Fatehpur, Rajasthan as the capital, kayamkhani rajputs ruled in Fatehpur, Jhunjhunu Jhunjhunu is a city and capital of Jhunjhunu district in the state of Rajasthan. This city is in the northern state of Rajasthan, India and the administrative headquarters of Jhunjhunu District. History Jhunjhunu is a very old and historical ... and Singhana. See also * Islam References {{Indian Muslim Rajput clans of Rajasthan Rajput clans of Haryana Muslim communities of Rajasthan ...
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Deshwali
The Deshwali, or sometimes pronounced Deswali, are a muslim community found in the state of Rajasthan in India. A small number of Deshwali are found in the city of Hyderabad, sindh . History and origin The community gets its name from the word ''desh'', which in the local Marwari language, Marwari language means land and ''wali'', which in Persian language, Persian (originally from Arabic) means lord, literally the word ''Deshwali'' means a feudal lord. They were employed as soldiers in the army of Prithvi Raj Chauhan. They are the early adopters of the Islam in India, which they accepted via the preaching of the Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti. In Madhya Pradesh, the community lives in Indore, Barnagar and Ratlam. In Rajasthan, they live in Nagour, Ajmer, Tonk, Bhilwara, Kota, Baran, Jhalawar, Bundi, Udaipur and Jaipur districts. They speak the Marwari language, Marwari dialect, with many having knowledge of Urdu. Present circumstances The Deshwali are generally an endogamous co ...
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Nagaur
Nagaur is a city and municipal council in Nagaur district of the state of Rajasthan in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Nagaur District. The Nagaur city lies about midway between Jodhpur and Bikaner. Nagaur is famous for spices and sweets (mithai). Nagaur have huge mineral resources. Nagaur also has a temple of Maheshwari community Kuldevi in the name of Deresiya Mata Mandir. History The Nagaur Fort is of historical importance. Nagaur fort is the fort built by the ancient Kshatriya of India. The original maker of the fort is Naagvanshi Kshatriya. The Kshatriya rulers dominated Nagaur for a long period of time. Nagaur ruler were repeatedly forced to pay tribute to the Sisodias of Chittor while their lands were slowly annexed by the Rathore of Jodhpur. The ancient name of the city was Ahichhatrapur. In the medieval era, the town of Nagaur sat astride trade routes coming north from Gujarat and Sindh and those on the west crossing the Indus from Multan. With a d ...
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Didwana
Didwana is the city, nearby of Nagaur, Nagaur city in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, India. The lion gateway of Marwar in Rajasthan and the archway of Merta, known as Abhanagri and Upakashi, is situated on the northern side of Didwana railway station, Didwana Salt lake in the north-eastern direction of Nagaur district. It is currently the additional district headquarters of Nagaur district, 6 tehsils of Nagaur, East Nagaur are Didwana, Ladnu, Ladnun, Kuchaman City, Kuchaman, Nawa, Rajasthan, Nawa, Makrana and Parbatsar. The people of Didwana speak the Rajasthani languages, Rajasthani language of Marwadi, a language in the Indo-Aryan family similar to Hindi. City of Blood Donation Dr.Sohan Choudhary: - The credit for bringing revolution of blood donation in Didwana goes to revolutionary blood hero Dr. Sohan Choudhary. Till date, Dr. Sohan Chaudhary has organised more than 400 blood donation camps. In the surrounding area and in the blood banks of the area, he has his own distinc ...
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Jayal
Jayal is a census town and tehsil headquarters in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan state. The town is located 50 km away from Nagaur. One of the oldest Stone Age civilization contemporary to bagor end tilwada. Geography Jayal is located at . It has an average elevation of 296 metres (974 feet). Demographics India census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ..., Jayal had a population of 12,218. Males constitute 6,258 of the population and females 5,960. Arora References Cities and towns in Nagaur district {{Rajasthan-geo-stub ...
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